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From YouTube: US Conference of Mayors Closing Remarks
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Mayor Walsh joins hundreds of other mayors from around the United States and the world to conclude the US Conference of Mayors conference and to thank them for meeting in Boston. This summit focused on best practices in both running cities and towns as well as shaping strong, intelligent policies across party and geographic lines.
A
A
This
conference
has
given
us
means
to
contribute
to
the
whole
of
life
in
this
country
on
a
grand
scale.
The
convening
of
mayors
of
different
party
affiliations
and
backgrounds.
Different
upgrades
and
geographical
perspectives
brought
the
government
to
collaborate
for
a
purpose
that
accomplished
far
greater
collectively
than
we
could
ever
do
separately.
A
A
And
we
have
a
lot
to
be
proud
of
here.
We
are
not
some
homogeneous
assembly
of
identical
faith
and
experience.
We
have
no
litmus
tests,
we
have
no
loyalty
oath,
you
have
no
photo
ID.
Instead,
we
are
a
congregation
of
diversity,
a
delegation
of
variety,
a
convention
that
defies
convention
doesn't
matter
if
you're,
a
man
or
a
woman,
your
race,
your
Creed,
your
color,
your
sexual
orientation
or
national
origin
with
God,
you
pray
to
or
if
you
pray
at
all,
we
join
together
in
the
same
spirit,
a
brotherhood,
sisterhood
and
community.
A
Good
afternoon,
everyone
and
welcome
to
our
closing
plenary
luncheon
to
begin
I
want
to
encourage
everyone
to
participate
in
the
fabulous
workshops
with
our
host
Marty
Walsh
has
arranged
for
us
this
afternoon.
They
focus
on
autonomous
vehicles,
housing,
affordability
and
second
chances
through
apprenticeships.
A
Details
of
those
workshops
are
in
your
program
and
also
on
our
uscm
app
I'd
like
to
take
a
brief
moment
to
recognize
our
friend,
the
mayor
of
Rochester
Minnesota,
our
del
breeding,
and
take
a
moment
of
personal
privilege
to
recognize
him
as
our
advisory
board
member
as
a
leader
in
civility
and
just
of
just
just
a
good
man.
It's
been
a
wonderful
friend
of
this
organization.
A
He's
been
the
mayor
of
Rochester
Minnesota
since
January
of
2003.
He
has
helped
lead
our
Veterans
Affairs
task
for
so
many
years
and
when
the
voice
for
compassion
the
reason
within
our
organization,
mayor
Brady
and
his
dear
wife,
Judy,
is
so
much
a
part
of
the
fabric
of
this
organization.
So
please
join
me
in
welcoming
Rochester
Minnesota
Mayor
Adela
Brady
to
the
stage.
B
A
Now
we're
so
happy
to
have
our
friend
mayor,
Marvin
Reece,
all
the
way
from
the
United
Kingdom
here
this
afternoon
to
give
remarks.
Mayor
Rees
was
born
and
raised
in
Bristol
in
the
southwest
of
England
the
champion
of
racial
equality.
When
he
became
mayor
Bristol
in
2016
operation
black
vote,
he
said
that
he
become
Europe's.
First
ever
directly
elected
mayor
of
African
Caribbean
descent,
Marvin
studied
in
both
the
UK
and
here
in
the
United
States.
He
earned
his
bachelor's
degree
in
economic
history
and
politics
and
then
a
master's
degree
in
political
theory
in
government.
A
He
is
a
Yale
University
world
fellow
and
has
worked
for
the
BBC.
As
a
presenter
and
journalist
Marvin's,
lifelong
commitment
to
public
service
started
early
on
working
in
international
development
and
the
UK's
National
Health
Service.
He
often
speaks
of
his
mixed
heritage.
His
father
arrived
in
England
as
a
12
year
old
from
Jamaica
his
mother's
of
English,
Welsh
and
Irish
heritage.
His
wife
is
American,
brother-in-law,
Swiss
and
most
of
his
Jamaican
family
live
in
Atlanta,
Los,
Angeles
and
Maryland
as
Jumeirah
kids.
A
C
All
right,
thank
you
very
much
if
you're
very
kind,
welcome,
and
thanks
for
your
welcome
to
the
United
States
I
am
actually
here
most
summers
anyway.
My
mother-in-law
was
sitting
in
the
crowd
somewhere,
it's
on
a
wave
Margene.
Oh
yes,
my
sister-in-law,
as
well
but
yeah
fellow
mayor's
distinguished
guests,
I,
think
it
was
the
19th
century
preacher,
Charles
Wesley,
who
said
if
you're
going
to
speak
for
more
than
10
minutes,
you
either
need
to
be
an
angel
or
speaking
to
angels.
Well,
this
is
the
last
slot.
I
know
many
of
you
want
to
go
home.
C
I've
been
asked
to
do
20
minutes
and
I'm,
not
an
angel,
so
I've
high
hopes
for
all
of
you
in
the
audience
today.
So
the
movement
of
people
has
been
a
fact
of
human
civilization.
Ever
since
there
has
been
human
civilization,
the,
but
the
challenges
and
opportunities
we
face
today
are
more
complex
and
more
dynamic
than
they
ever
have
been
before.
C
The
EU
member
states
received
1.2
million
first
time
asylum
applications
in
2015
sparking
a
political
and
humanitarian
crisis,
the
ramifications
of
which
are
still
unfolding
today,
and
it's
certainly
contributed
to
the
United
Kingdom's
decision
to
leave
the
EU.
But,
according
to
some
estimates,
as
many
as
200
million
people
could
be
climate
change
refugees
by
the
middle
of
the
century.
C
Now,
of
course,
individual
political
actors
and
parties
play
a
role
in
this
policy
does
matter,
but
there
is
a
deeper
problem
at
work
here
and
it's
in
the
inability
of
the
nation-state
with
this,
with
its
historic
commitment
to
hard
boundaries,
control
defined
identities
and
their
I
say
debate
rather
than
delivery
to
support
the
kind
of
political
leadership
capable
of
meeting
the
migration
challenge
in
front
of
us.
Nation-States
may
simply
lack
the
tools
needed
to
meet
the
challenges
of
migration
and
many
other
challenges.
C
Today,
in
19th
and
20th
centuries,
both
of
our
countries
had
powerful
stories
about
who
we
were
and
what
we
were
that
generated
an
extraordinary
collective
energy,
but
in
the
last
few
decades
we've
seen
those
simple
narratives
become
increasingly
brittle
and
fractured.
Now,
despite
having
British
blood
as
you've
heard,
that
goes
back
centuries.
There
are
no
national
conversations
in
my
country
about
identity
and
belonging
that
fail
to
leave
me
feeling
a
little
cold.
C
It
seems
increasingly
clear
to
me
that
the
national
level
of
politics
alone
is
simply
incapable
of
renewing
a
compelling
vision
of
shared
identity
that
is
fit
for
purpose
in
a
21st
century.
Our
interdependent
world
needs
leaders
with
emotional
intelligence,
mutual
understanding,
multi-dimensional
world
views
and
empathy.
Instead,
we
get
crassness
and
obstructionism
better
suited
to
the
old
binary
zero-sum
world,
where
the
interests
of
discrete
nation-states
could
be
pursued,
irrespective
of
the
interests
of
others.
Now
people
have
always
moved
around
and
they've
always
come
together.
C
Forming
and
growing
cities
for
education,
culture,
employment,
growing
national
economies,
cities
are
growing
at
a
rapid
rate
again
and
that's
why
people
are
look
into
city
leaders
like
us
in
a
new
way,
there's
a
growing
belief
that
cities
are
best
placed
to
bring
difference
together
for
the
common
good
as
you've
heard,
I'm
a
product
of
migration
as
a
mixed-race
man
of
African,
Caribbean,
English,
Welsh
and
Irish
heritage
with
an
American
wife
and
a
Swiss
brother-in-law.
Migration
is
not
an
tract
issue.
For
me.
C
It's
my
family,
it's
Who,
I
am
and
as
a
man
and
a
mayor,
I
am
a
product
of
my
city
in
Bristol,
my
colleague
canceled
a
hit
back
JAMA
is
a
former
Somali
refugee
and
was
elected
to
sit
alongside
me
as
a
city
leader.
My
deputy
mayor,
Asha,
Craig,
is
I'm,
told
Europe's.
First
raster
deputy
man,
Craig
Cheney,
my
other
deputy
mayor,
comes
from
a
white
working-class
background,
one
of
13
children.
He
experienced
the
extreme
poverty
and,
on
occasion,
eaten
his
food
from
a
bin
as
a
child.
That's
a
that's
a
trash.
C
Can
those
for
the
translation?
Craig
would
thank
me
for
the
explanation
and
today
answer,
but
today
creates
it's.
As
my
head
of
Finance
overseeing
a
1
billion
pound
budget
for
my
city,
my
chief
of
staff
grew
up
in
one
of
the
poorest
estates
in
Bristol,
his
family
white
working-class
still
lives
there
and
together
we
lead
close
to
our
city
in
the
city's
interest.
Refugee,
migrant
child
of
migrant,
a
member
of
the
indigenous
population
cities
are
the
places
where
we
come
together.
C
Cities
are
the
places
where
we
must
get
things
done
and
we
live
with
the
immediate
benefits
and
the
costs
of
success
and
failure.
A
city
leaders,
I,
say
we
should
bring
our
strengths
together
and
bring
our
optimism
to
bear
in
reshaping
the
way
politics
works
at
the
national
and
international
level.
We
need
global
governance
to
move
into
its
next
iteration,
and
that
means
the
representatives
of
international
networks
of
cities
sitting
alongside
national
actors
in
shaping
the
national
and
international
context
in
which
we
must
live.
C
At
this
moment
we
find
ourselves
trying
to
lead
a
21st
century
world
with
20th
century
political
structures.
People
have
always
known
that
nations
working
alone
weren't
enough.
That's
why
nations
banded
together,
but
whereas
before
they
looked
up
and
across
to
collaborate,
I
suggest
that
today
they
need
to
look
inward
and
a
cross
city
to
city.
The
political
innovation
migration
needs
will
come
from
international
collections
of
cities
were
known
for
creating
best
practices
and
sharing
best
practices.
We
now
need
the
space
to
create
the
new
international
politics.
C
Three
weeks
ago,
I
was
invited
to
speak
at
the
negotiations
on
the
Global
Compact
for
migration
at
the
United
Nations.
Now,
surprisingly,
or
perhaps
not
surprisingly,
up
till
that
point,
there
had
been
no
formal
city
input
to
those
negotiations
and,
despite
naming
a
host
of
actors,
political
actors,
no,
where
did
the
compact
explicitly
mentioned
city
government?
Now?
C
This
is
an
important
process
politically,
as
it's
the
first
time
that
countries
have
come
together
to
regulate
immigration,
when
President
Trump
rejuve
withdrew
from
the
negotiations
last
December
US
cities,
and
many
of
you
here
today
passed
a
similar
message
on
as
the
as
you
did
around
climate
change,
that
you
were
still
at
the
table
to
figure
out
today's
biggest
problems
together
and,
as
I
pointed
out
at
Mott.
In
my
speech
at
the
United
Nations,
most
migrants
leave
cities
go
to
cities
and
return
to
cities.
Roughly
20%
of
migrants
worldwide
live
in
just
20
cities.
C
Over
70%
of
the
draft
compact
for
migrations
objectives
can
only
be
fully
realized,
with
the
active
participation
of
city
authorities
and
I
might
add
that
cities
can
lead
even
when
national
governments
are
failing
to
deliver
or
even
opposing
the
compact.
Its
authors
know
they
need
to
make
it
real
and
that
cities
are
critical
to
that.
C
The
challenge
they
face
is
how
to
harness
the
collective
and
legitimate
voice
of
cities
in
support
of
the
compacts
aims,
and
that's
why
they
are
so
keen
to
come
to
the
global
Parliament,
a
mayor
summit,
which
would
be
held
in
my
city
of
Bristol.
This
October
well
we'll
continue
this
dialogue
together.
C
So,
as
I
said,
I'll
be
hosting
the
global
Parliament
of
Mayors
in
Bristol
in
October.
This
is
our
aim
is
to
bring
together
mayors
and
the
leaders
of
the
various
city.
Net
works
for
three
days
of
hard
work
where
we
commit
to
getting
ourselves
as
an
international
network
of
cities
and
city
networks
better
organized
now.
C
My
request
is
that,
as
a
global
network
of
cities,
we
can
come
together
to
agree
focus
on
a
small
number
of
critical
areas
in
which
we
want
to
make
progress.
Migration
is
one,
but
my
other
appeal
is
that
we
begin
to
formalize
the
way
our
networks
working
with
each
other,
just
think
of
the
additional
power
available
through
a
formal
working
alliance
between
the
US
Conference
of
Mayors
and
the
euro
cities.
C
The
network
of
European
cities,
the
prize
of
better
organization,
is
greater
influence,
but
I
fear
the
price
of
not
getting
ourselves
organized
will
be
diminishing
returns
from
the
many
many
city
meetings.
City
leaders
like
myself,
and
many
of
you
in
a
room
are
asked
to
attend
on
a
weekly
basis.
If
we
don't
get
our
or
our
networks
organized
we'll
be
charged
with
having
a
confused
voice
on
the
issues
that
matter
and
I
fear
that,
after
a
period
of
frustration,
the
world's
key
decision-makers
will
move
on
without
us.
C
So
we
need
to
begin
working
with
our
inter
dependencies.
We
need
city
networks
such
as
metropolis
resilient
cities,
c40.
U
CLG
equally
to
work
with
us
on
this
and
at
the
very
least,
we
need
to
get
them
to
coordinate
their
Diaries,
a
very
simple
but
a
complex
task
to
sure
that
we
as
mayor's,
aren't
pulled
in
15
different
directions
at
the
same
time,
and
our
impact
diluted,
I
believe
the
Global
Compact
for
migration
is
an
exciting
opportunity
for
cities
to
test
the
full
potential
of
our
influence.
C
We
can
assure
that,
from
this
point
on
the
city
voice
is
included
at
every
stage
of
these
negotiations.
This
will
be
before
us
at
the
global
Parliament,
a
mayor
summit
in
October,
and
there
were
others
on
a
topic
such
as
population,
health,
resilience
and
security.
That
we'll
also
be
trying
to
get
cities
to
focus
in
on
it
by
city.
I've
worked
to
develop
an
approach.
We
call
big
offer
and
big.
C
Ask
so
I
say
to
the
many
people
that
want
to
lobby
me
rather
than
just
coming
and
asking
me
for
things
or
even
sometimes,
as
they
want
to
demanding
things
of
me.
I
challenge
people
to
come
and
make
me
an
offer.
I
say
to
people
in
my
city.
Tell
me
what
big
thing
you
want
to
get
done
for
the
city
and
then
tell
me
what
you
need
from
me
and
the
city
to
enable
you
to
do
it.
C
I
think,
is
a
much
more
proactive,
empowering
constructive
approach
and
that's
the
spirit
in
which
I
come
to
you
today
and
so
I'd
like
to
make
you
as
a
US
Conference
of
Mayors
an
offer,
and
it
is
this
and
I've
believed
I.
Have
it
on
good
authority
that
Bristol
many
cities
around
the
world
will
back
you
as
American
mayor's,
as
you
take
a
stand
on
the
issues
that
matter
from
migration
to
climate
change.
We
recognize
your
leadership
in
this
areas
and
we
thank
you
for
it.
C
Our
ask
is
that
you
do
actually
do
that
that
you
do
lead,
and
our
ask
is
that
you,
you
recognize
us
cities
as
the
source
of
global
political
hope
that
you
are
at
this
time
that
you
recognize
that
US
cities
are
not
only
national
leaders
but
by
very
virtue
of
the
nation
of
which
you
are
part.
You
are
international
leaders
and
you
set
an
international
standard.
Whether
you
know
it
or
not.
The
whole
world
is
watching
what
you
do
and
we
recognized
that
you
are
not
just
nation
shape,
as
you
are
global
shapers.
C
Main
conclusion
I
just
like
to
say
that
I
believe
this
moment
has
found
us
as
city
leaders
when
I
was
elected
two
years
ago,
I
didn't
come
into
office
with
an
international
agenda.
I
didn't
come
in,
aiming
to
be
standing
on
this
stage
at
the
US
Conference
of
Mayors,
just
after
two
years
of
office.
It's
just
something
that's
come
upon
us
and
I
think
the
same
goes
for
all
of
us.
What
we
found
is
a
world
in
which
national
governments
are
not
delivering.
C
We
have
to
get
organized
a
observation
by
Martin,
Luther,
King,
I,
love
and
I've,
shared
with
a
number
of
people
in
my
city
says
that
power
doesn't
come
neatly
wrapped
in
government
parcels,
it's
a
social
force
and
it's
available
to
all
of
us.
But
it's
available
to
us,
those
of
us
who
get
organized
conservative
or
liberal
Republican
or
Democrat.
We
can't
look
around
right
now
and
think
we're
making
a
good
job
of
this
planet.
We
need
to
organize
ourselves
to
exert
our
influence.
We
are
interdependent.
C
You
fought
to
move
from
dependence
to
independence
in
your
history,
a
mine
leader,
Stephen
Covey's,
the
author
of
7
habits
of
highly
effective
people
who
says
as
children
we
go
from
dependence
to
endured
independence,
but
the
highest
state,
the
most
mature
state
of
being,
is
to
recognize
our
interdependence.
So
now,
I
ask
you
to
fight
for
that.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
A
A
Our
conference
supports
our
work
every
single
day
and
we
look
forward
to
finding
new
ways
more
ways
to
try
and
continue
moving
our
great
cities
in
this
great
country
forward.
I
am
excited
to
announce
that
this
fall.
The
conference,
along
with
founding
sponsor
Verizon
and
with
New
York
University's
Robert
F
Wagner
Graduate
School
of
Public
Service,
will
launch
the
mayor's
Leadership
Institute
on
smart
cities.
A
This
initiative
will
support
your
work
by
examining
how
we
prepare
our
cities
to
harness
the
energy
of
the
innovation
economy,
solve
our
city's
pressing
challenges
and
improve
the
quality
of
life
for
our
respective
citizens.
It's
going
to
start
by
helping
us
all
develop
our
own
visions.
Our
own
smart
city
vision,
help
us
address
some
of
our
most
pressing
challenges
by
deploying
new
talent,
new
technologies,
thoughtful
policy
making
and
making
necessary
regulatory
changes
in
our
own
unique
cities.
Every
city
is
built
differently
and
we
have
to
make
sure
that
our
mayors
are
empowered.
A
What
we
need,
so
that
we
are
indeed
leading
this
discussion.
I
want
to
thank
our
friends
at
Verizon
for
being
a
founding
sponsor
of
this
work,
but
I
will
tell
you
that
we
will
be
supporter
agnostic.
We
want
everyone
at
the
table,
every
single
person
who
has
an
interest
in
supporting
our
member
mayors
in
making
great
decisions
to
make
their
cities
better.
So
this
would
be
exciting
process.
All
of
you
will
be
receiving
information
about
how
to
potentially
participate
in
this
Leadership
Institute.
A
So
stay
tuned
this
summer,
as
we
as
we
as
we
build
this
effort
before
we
close
I,
want
to
highlight
the
rest
of
the
day's
events.
First,
as
I
said
earlier,
there'll
be
a
host.
A
variety
of
host
city
workshops.
This
afternoon
check
your
app
and/or
chat,
the
program
to
see
those
and,
of
course,
we'll
finish.
A
The
conference
with
the
celebration
tonight
at
America's,
beloved
ballpark,
Fenway,
Park
I,
know
some
new
Yankee
fans
and
other
fans
might
not
might
not
see
it
as
beloved,
but
fans
market
Fenway
is
is
a
singular
and
it's
going
to
be
pretty
exciting
before
we
adjourn
this
meeting.
I
do
want
to
ask
all
of
you
to
give
a
great
round
of
applause
and
the
men
and
women
who
served
us
this
this
weekend.
A
It's
just
it's
just
been
fantastic
and
well
done
and
again,
Tom
I
want
to
thank
you
and
your
staff
and
know
that
myself,
Brian
Gregg
and
the
entire
leadership
team
here
at
the
conference
are
just
excited
with
that.
The
this
session
and
the
86th
annual
meeting
of
the
United
States
Conference
of
Mayor
is
adjourned.
God
bless
you.